1853
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Events
- January 19 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome
- January 21 - Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine.
- January - Napoleon III marries the Spanish Countess Eugenie at the Tuileries
- July 8 Commodore Perry arrives in Edo Bay with a request for a trade treaty
- August 24 - Potato chips first prepared.
- November 15 - Maria II of Portugal is succeeded by her son Pedro
- November 30 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinope - The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet.
- December 30 - Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest
- Donald McKay builds The Great Republic, the world's biggest sailing ship, which at 4,500 tons was too large to be successful
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel began work on the Great Eastern passenger steamer
- Franklin Pierce succeeds Millard Fillmore as President of the United States of America
- Start of Crimean War
- Independent Santa Cruz Maya of Eastern Yucatan recognized as an independent nation by British Empire
- Iesada succeeds Ieoshi as Japanese Shogun
- Beginning of the Late Tokugawa shogunate, the last part of the Edo period in Japan.
Year in topic
Births
- January 28 - Jose Marti, revolutionary (+ 1895)
- March 14 - Ferdinand Hodler, painter (+ 1918)
- March 30 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
- May 28 - Carl Larsson, painter (+ 1919)
- June 3 - William Flinders Petrie, Egyptologist
- July 5 - Cecil Rhodes, South African politician
- July 18- Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
- January 16 - Matteo Carcassi, Italian composer
- March 17 - Christian Doppler, mathematician
- July 23 - Ieoshi, Japanese Shogun
- November 15 - Maria II of Portugal
heads of State
- China - Xianfeng Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1850-1861)
- Denmark - Frederick VII, King of Denmark (1848-1863)
- France - Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1852-1870)
- Norway - Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway (1844-1859)
- Ottoman Empire - Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (July 2, 1839 to June 25, 1861)
- Prussia - Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1840-1861)
- Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
- Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
- United States -
- Millard Fillmore, President of the United States (1850-1853)
- Franklin Pierce, President of the United States (1853-1857)